Neophyllobius, Berlese

Fan, Qing-Hai & Walter, David E., 2006, Camerobia and Neophyllobius (Acari: Prostigmata: Camerobiidae) from Australia, with the descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 1309, pp. 1-23 : 7

Genus Neophyllobius Berlese

Neophyllobius Berlese, 1886: 19 ; McGregor, 1950: 55; Summers & Schlinger, 1955: 549; De Leon, 1958: 173; Meyer & Ryke, 1960: 210; Chaudhri et al., 1974: 188; Zaher & Gomma, 1979: 123; Bolland, 1986: 195; Meyer & Ueckermann, 1989: 53; Bolland, 1991: 61; Fan & Zhang, 2005: 16 and 23; Akyol & Koç, 2006a: 125 .

Type species: Neophyllobius elegans Berlese, 1886 ; by original designation.

Diagnosis (revised from Fan & Zhang, 2005)

Female. Stylophore with 1–2 pairs of peritremes. Counts of setae and solenidia from palptrochanter to palptarsus: 0, 2, 1, 3 + 1 claw, 2 setae + 1–2 eupathidia + 1 solenidion. Idiosoma with 14 or 15 (pdx present) pairs of setae. Genital valves with 1 pair of setae, anal valves with 3 pairs of pseudanal setae. Solenidion on basal halves of tarsi I and II. Tarsi I–II each with 1–2 medio­ventral setae in a longitudinal line and III–IV each with 1–2 medio­ventral setae. Counts of setae and solenidia of legs I–IV: coxae (excluding 1a, 3a, and 4a) 2 + 1 elcI, 1, 2, 2; trochanters 1, 1, 1, 1; femora 3–4, 2–4, 1–3, 1–3; genua 1 + 1, 1 + 1, 1, 1; tibiae 9 + 1, 8 + 1, 8 + 1, 7 + 1; tarsi 9–10 + 1, 9–10 + 1, 7–8 + 0–1, 7–8.

Male. Aedeagus present; tibia I with an additional terminal solenidion; tarsi I–IV each with an enlarged solenidion.

Remarks

Since the revision of the genus by Bolland (1991), 25 species have been added to the genus, most of which are from the Middle East (Appendix 1). Previously only a single species was known from Australia. Below we review the description of this species and describe two new species.